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Document Type

Poster

Publication Date

5-1-2025

Disciplines

Environmental Sciences

Advisor

Joe Storlien

Abstract

The St. Cloud hydroelectric dam is a smaller dam located in central Minnesota on the Mississippi river. The dam causes many environmental issues related to stopping freshwater fish migration, lack of nutrient loading at the bottom of the dam, and a general loss of biodiversity on the Mississippi. Dam removal is an option to solve many of the problems that the dam produces, but it will remove a large amount of renewable energy that powers St Cloud. Do the renewable energy benefits of the St Cloud dam outweigh the ecological benefits of its removal? This poster examines whether the renewable energy generation of the St Cloud hydroelectric dam outweigh the environmental benefits of its removal.

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